As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including ...

No one will be arrested in connection with either murder. August 20, 1955 Mamie Till rushes her son Emmett to the 63rd Street station in Chicago to catch the southbound train to Money, Mississippi ...

Emmett died. And he died because of a number ... the founder of the Till archives and co-author of a book about media coverage of Till’s murder, shared the documents with The Washington Post ...

Family members of the two known living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre met for the first time on Thursday with detectives from the DOJ.

Wright Thompson grew up in the Mississippi Delta, about 30 miles from where the body of Emmett Till was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955. The 14-year-old’s savage murder is widely ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. is Emmett Till's cousin and traveled with him from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955. Sadly, Parker returned alone.

This week I spoke with Wright Thompson, a Mississippi native whose new nonfiction book, “The Barn,” looks at the murder of Emmett Till from multiple perspectives — cultural, geographical and ...

Telemundo Chicago (WSNS) and NBC Sports Chicago – earned 11 Emmy Awards from the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National ...

By preserving key sites related to Emmett Till, his murder and its aftermath, this park site helps ensure that his story is honored and remembered. The national park site is comprised of three anchor ...

A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother ... all-male jury acquitted Emmett’s killers, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, at this courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi. The men confessed ...

The new monument would "protect places that tell the story of Emmett Till's too-short life and racially-motivated murder, the unjust acquittal of his murderers, and the activism of his mother ...